By CrossRiverWatch Admin After a harrowing 179 days in Calabar Correctional Centre, detained journalist, Agba Jalingo on Wednesday relived his experiences in the facility, describing his incarceration as a huge lesson. Jalingo, who arrived the domestic wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos two days after his release, said he went on a six-
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Federal Government has ruled out refunding the N20 billion the Governor Ben Ayade administration is spending on the Tinapa-Odukpani junction dual carriage and the Odukpani junction spaghetti flyover in Cross River State. The State has in the past two years struggled to fix the 16.7 kilometre dual carriage and the flyover
By Ushang Ewa Justice Simon Amobeda who presides over court 2 of the Calabar division of the federal high court will tomorrow (Monday) hear for the first time, a case instituted against Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state by constitutional lawyer, First Baba Isa over the creation of aviation, foreign affairs and solid minerals
By CrossRiverWatch Admin A Federal High court sitting in Nigeria’s southern port city of Calabar and presided over by Justice Sule Shuaibu has admitted journalist and rights activist, Agba Jalingo to bail. This was after Justice Simon Amobeda had denied him bail on October 4th and 30th, 2019 as well as 175 days after his
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Justice Sule Shuaibu of the Federal High Court Calabar, the administrative Judge (Court room 1) has just admitted Agba Jalingo to bail. The Judge gave some conditions which our newsroom is still verifying. Details later.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has joined the growing number of groups that have called on the Nigerian Government to free the detained Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo, from prison. The union in a letter to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, said the travails of Mr. Jalingo appear to be “persecution
His election came with lots of expectations, given his background and profile, as a former Senator of the Federal Republic, a grassroots man and an erudite professor. Born as Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade not long ago in 1968, he had become one of the youngest serving Governors at the time of his inauguration in May 2015.
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has reiterated his confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari leadership. Ayade in an interview from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he accompanied president Buhari to the ongoing 33rd ordinary session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU). He adjudged Buhari to have deep